When spelling names, for example “Bram”, to make clear that there's only one M at the end I hear French people say “Avec un seul M à la fin”. But “M est une consonne” therefore “un nom feminin”. So ...

Is the 'r' that is dropped from infinitives a sign of past movement towards non-rhoticity (drop of all post-vocalic'r'), or is it just one of many consonants that were dropped to be added back in as ...

I read a quotation from a famous French mathematician a few years ago (in English translation), and I am trying to find it again.
I believe it was attributed to either Pierre-Simon Laplace or Joseph-...

In my French class, we were taught the "Dr. and Mrs.
Vandertramp" mnemonic to learn the main verbs that use être as an auxiliary verb in the passé composé in most cases. Looking at the results from a ...

The abundance of silent ending consonants in French totally separates its pronunciation from the other Romance languages-- neither Spanish, nor Portuguese, nor Italian, nor Latin have that feature (I'...

While the Académie française disapproves of gender-neutral "inclusive" writing (l'écriture inclusive), some proponents use feminine adjectives to modify multiple nouns that include words that are both ...

The distinction between tu and vous fascinates me, perhaps because we don't have such a feature in English anymore. While it takes a few seconds of conscious thought for a learner like me to decide ...

I am writing historical fiction, so pretty good with research. But I am stumped by the use of Monsieur. I realize it was used by royalty referring to the brother of a king. However now it is used as a ...